That and the "frock" comment brings to mind the Dickens' book Great Expectations and the character Miss Haversham. †:)

Don't know the reference sorry, Dickens was no match for Waugh on matters American. So maybe I should have said a formaldehyde smelling shroud recently recovered from use at 'The Happy Hunting Ground' pet cemetery where it had been accidentally sent packed with other rags for swabbing dead horses. Once the mistake was realized 'The Loved One', Bill's episcopal gown with KKK point circumcised, was cleaned and made to look new for its afterlife as the second coming Emperors dream coat.

--------------The conservative has but little to fear from the man whose reason is the servant of his passions, but let him beware of him in whom reason has become the greatest and most terrible of the passions.These are the wreckers of outworn empires and civilisations, doubters, disintegrators, deicides.Haldane